Hello faith family! St. Nicholas friends, I know you don’t usually receive the St. Nicholas weekly newsletter, however there is a message to you in this edition! All past newsletters are available on the News page of our website.
See the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for the week of July 26, 2020. In it, you will get a reminder about the Great EpisGOpal Race, and there is a lovely message from Madeline regarding feeding the less fortunate in our community. Also, see the most recent edition of our Diocese weekly newsletter titled The Net, as well as the quarterly magazine, the Communion.
This week, we will have two services, as well as children’s ministries. ALL are Welcome; contact the office for Zoom invitations. Please let me know if you would like a paper copy of any leaflet mailed to you. Note, there will be no Wednesday service this week, but it will resume on August 5, 2020. Past Intercessory Prayer services are available on our YouTube channel.
- Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 9 a.m. – Worship Service, Rite II with music LIVE from St. Thomas’s on YouTube.
- Sunday at 11 a.m. – children’s worship via Zoom.
- Wednesday noon – intercessory prayer LIVE on YouTube a leaflet for Pentecost. Cancelled for July 29.
- Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline evening prayers with Deacon Cecily. ALL are Welcome. Let me know if you need a Zoom link for this calming and prayerful end to the day.
- Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 9 a.m. – Worship Service, Rite II with music LIVE from St. Nicholas on YouTube.
- Sunday at 11 a.m. – children’s worship via Zoom.
Please let me know if you have ANY feedback, questions, or suggestions regarding our online worship. Let’s work together to make this “now normal” as great as we can imagine! Your input could make a big difference.
The July Fun fellowship project: Passing the Peace with Postcards, has been launched! By now, you should have received your envelopes with postcards to pray over and pass along. And, you may have even started to recieve your own messages of positivity back! PLEASE, let me know if you have not received any postcards, or if you would like a few more. I’ll be more than happy to send some more out.
Participate in The Great EpisGOpal Race. Sign up using the sign-up genius. In case you haven’t heard me shouting this from the roof, The United Thank Offering is running a virtual marathon from July 24th to August 1st and have called it “The Great EpisGOpal Race”. It is a relaxed, low-pressure effort that can be done at your own pace, over several days. You choose the distance you will travel, as well as your modality: walk slow, run fast, swim, bike, roller skate, etc. We will join together as a team: The Soul Surrenderers, to race for OUR lives and the lives of those affected by COVID-19. Email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or use the sign-up genius to join in the FUN! Everyone signing up for The Soul Surrenderers will receive a team water bottle, so please let me know the number of people participating from your household. I’m asking for a suggested donation of $5 per km. Feel free to solicit additional donations from family and neighbors. 100% of the money raised will go to the 2020 UTO Ingathering in support of Episcopal ministries responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a FUN opportunity for our faith family to join together in a safe and socially distanced way to make a positive difference. Everything is by the honor system. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please let me know if you have any meetings – virtual or otherwise – that you would like to have included on the Parish calendar.
To see all events or news, visit our website, check FaceBook, or check out the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.
Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com